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TIL: Nearly a third of homicides go unsolved in the US each year

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WkWpN TIL that in January 2000, British boxer Julius Francis faced Mike Tyson. British newspaper The Mirror was so certain of Francis' defeat that they paid £20,000 for an advert on the soles of his shoes. Francis lost in two rounds, but he enjoyed the biggest payday of his career, at around £350,000
0dREv TIL that in 1995 a California woman contracted the bubonic plague when she ran over a squirrel in her power mower
NX48E TIL "Amadeus" was filmed almost entirely in real castles and palaces in Prague, rather than Vienna where Mozart actually lived
Y7LPZ TIL there is a fish doorbell at a lock in Utrecht, where viewers of the livestream notify the lock-keeper to open the lock for fish to pass through.
xVGEg TIL that to avoid releasing the Watergate tapes to prosecutors, Nixon proposed that Democratic Senator John C. Stennis alone be able to listen to them. Stennis was both notoriously hard-of-hearing and heavily drugged after being shot earlier in the year. The offer was quickly rejected.